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Seiven
03/12/09

In reply to Namco Says Its Not Evil, Dropped Splatterhouse Devs For "Performance Issues"
GOOD! I, for one, am tired of lazy ass devs with second rate games. And this includes lazy ass devs that don't port shit to other platforms...looking at you Valve...take your head out of your ass and port great games to other platforms...left 4 dead to PS3 please...and Bethesda WTF? no Fallout 3 DLC for PS3? and 360 owners deserve Killzone 2 Guerilla...imagine how much better it would be on Live?

sorry if I am pissed and ranting...I got off work early and drank a bottle of wine...long week in the IT industry
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
03/12/09

@Seiven: Are there any Live games that support more than 16 players?
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Theoutlet
03/12/09

@Seiven: The only reason Killzone 2 would be better on live is because my friends won't get off their lazy asses and turn on their PS3. I mean they have one, and they like the game but, they refuse to play it. It's mind boggling.
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Seiven
03/12/09

@Theoutlet: really? damn we, as gamers, owe it to our culture to get them off their asses...KZ2 is Amazing...I love Live and wish that PSN is one day as good, but damn...really? that lazy?
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
03/12/09

In reply to Namco Says Its Not Evil, Dropped Splatterhouse Devs For "Performance Issues"
I want this game to be good. And really, half of what made the old games awesome was the over the top gore. Chainsawing dead babies or midgets or whatever those things were, then chainsawing a beating heart and making blood come down the entire screen? It's so over the top it's great. All those exploding monsters and headless enemies that are headless because you punched off their heads but they keep fighting anyway? I loved it. Question is...can you get away with that sort of ludicrous horror gore in a game anymore? The obvious answer might appear to be yes, since we've done it before and we've seen what games like GTA and God of War do, but back in the day, the Splatterhouse games were about pushing the limits of what was acceptable. To be truly memorable, it'd have to do it again. And if they do...well, bring a good umbrella to shelter yourself from the shitstorm.
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Roufuss
03/12/09

@Mister Jack Made a Killzone 2 Clan:

You can get away with it.

Hell, look at Madworld, and that's on the *wii*.
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
03/12/09

@Roufuss: More! I must have more!!!
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Man In Gauze is an obscure reference to Courage the Cowardly Dog.
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
"futuristic feudal Japan"? What?
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nipsen
02/20/09

@Man In Gauze wants KZ2:

Ninja Scroll has.. machinery.. and some camera- work, as well as dialogue, that suddenly removes the series from the original setting. Samurai Champloo has things like baseball, the music, or graffiti. And Afro Samurai does the same thing with hip- hop.

It's not a good term, "futuristic feudal Japan" - but then again it's not something you can describe all that well, anyway.
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KamikazeSailor
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
This is the exact same opinion I had of the game!

Beautifully rendered, well-crafted and flowing free with a few problems regarding the combat and such that are almost drowned out by RZA and Samuel L. Jackson doing what they both do best.

It's a really really fun game if you can get past the few flaws mentioned above.
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TheIrishNinja
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
shit, between this and the RZA's shaboopadoop reviews, im starting to think i might dig this one. looking forward to the demo tonight.
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@TheIrishNinja: lol, when i read that quickly, i was about to jump out of my seat in hopes of a "shoop the whoop" game.
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Mucudadada
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
I wish everything could be called by what they are only repeated twice like "Ninja Ninja"

Then we could just call Uwe Boll "Tool Tool"
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Antiterra
02/20/09

@Mucudadada: Yes, but then how could we tell him apart from Brett Ratner and whoever directed Spice World?
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
hmmm...was a rent from the start, but i doubt i'll ever get around to it. i'll wait for my summer gaming binge, in the summer.
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NeoAkira
02/21/09

@Lllusionx:

Same here, except I'll probably play it during my summer gaming binge in the fall.
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Antiterra
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
From both the review and demo I played earlier today, this sounds like a game I could waste a couple of hours on (before getting bored), but not pay full price for.

Unfortunately for Afro Samurai, too many fantastic games were released recently, with many more lined up in the coming months.

If only I had more free time... Wishes, horses, riding beggars, candy, nuts n' all that.
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Cerabret100
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
Samurai Champloo was great, though i think there was a game on it that sucked.

Have these guys do it, there really could be a market for animes like this done in a half-way decent manner.

Key part being "Half-way decent", tie in games don't have the best record with that part.
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@Cerabret100: i loved samurai champloo and afro samurai. just doesnt mean either of thm can make a decent game. now if they used the graphics and fighting from naruto ultimate ninja storm in every anime game, that'd be a very special market for people to be in.
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Schmatz
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
How do you forget to mention the naked ninja chicks?!
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Curse lily
02/20/09

@Schmatz: what where are they?（●）（●）*runs to rent it*
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OkayOctane
02/20/09

@Curse_Lily: Are those boobs..or eyes? I can't tell.
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Curse lily
02/20/09

@OkayOctane: does't it matter (￣▽￣)
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GOLD5
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
The series was a total rip off of Ninja Scroll wrapped up in a desperate attempt to appeal to the 50 cent crowd with tacked on black-guy voices and music. (Ever see the creator of Afro? Totally not a negro. Boring guy, too.) Still, I was hoping the game would be really fun, is it like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden? Or not as good?
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saulpimpson, kicker of elves
02/20/09

@GOLD5: who says negro anymore?
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@saulpimpson: anybody that has seen ninja scroll?
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Curse lily
02/20/09

@GOLD5: "50 cent crowd" "Totally not a negro"jeez grow up would you
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Antiterra
02/20/09

@GOLD5: Yeah, you're right, the RZA and 50 Cent: same thing.

50 Cent's soundtrack for Ghost Dog was totally rad...
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Komrade Kayce
02/20/09

@GOLD5:

I've watched Ninja Scroll, long time ago, long before Afro came out.

I thought it was a piece of shit. Sorry... I know theres a lot of love for it, but I put it in the same bucket as the first Vampire Hunter D movie (the second one was AWESOME though).

Afro was entertaining, mostly because of Ron Pearlman, Sam L and a black samurai with an afro. I still love it.
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Snyder General
02/20/09

@GOLD5: I noticed one similarity between Afro Samurai and Ninja Scroll and it was fight scene on a bridge. If you ever seen a ronin type film ,like Zatoichi or Sanjuro, you would know that those scenes are abundant.

"...50 Cent crowd..." - that's real cute. Here's a spoiler,as much as you might not want to believe, the majority of rap music isn't that garbage that they spew on MTV. I consider myself a hip hop aficionado,yet you'll never catch me listening to 50 Cent,Lil Wayne,Young Jeezy or any of the other sellout rappers you see on tv.

Also, what does the creator of Afro not being a "negro" have to do with anything.
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Antiterra
02/20/09

@Blacksnyder: The fight-on-a-bridge is definitely a staple of Japanese samurai folklore. Benkei vs. Yoshitsune as told in the Heike Monogatari is probably the most famous example evar.

Okay, now I want a Yojimbo/Sanjuro videogame set to Gil Scott-Heron's music.
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illrasta79
02/20/09

@GOLD5: I'm black, I'm into the Afro Samurai anime, but I can't stand 50 cent...so what crowd am I in again?
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Antiterra
02/20/09

@illrasta79: You're just confused, son. Don't worry, you'll learn to love 50 Cent, eat nothing but fried chicken, impregnate a 14-year-old girl and shoot someone (or shoot yourself in the leg in a nightclub if you play professional football, in which case you should also consider roughing up an air hostess or two).

And you'll be relieved to know that in doing so, you'll help us feed our white liberal guilt and drive up gun sales in South Carolina. :P

@CannibalDan: Bust out the Thesaurus, we're gonna need a lot of synonyms.
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bableebooblah-new and improved.
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
game would be more appealing if an actual afro hairpiece was a samurai and went around slashing poor white man's mullets and weird 80's new wave hairdoos.
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Curse lily
02/20/09

@bableebooblah: you sir got a crazy idea there and i like ^_^
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Kibblez
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
Afro Sumarai... isn't that a Japanese bukkake?
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@Kibblez: I and everyone else on the internet should kill ourselves for being within a 4billion+ comparison rate with you.... i for one am killing myself right now for know what that is.............................................*dies*
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Darrisbob1
02/20/09

@Lllusionx:

Hey, go the honorable way. Seppuku! :D

*draws blade*

*drives blade into lower stomach*

*soul is released*

*dies*
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@Darrisbob1 got disemvoweled once :(: i thought that was hari-kari?

*copies Darrisbob1*
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Captain_MacSoup
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
''Does look like a b*tch? DOES HE?! ''
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/20/09

@Hazmat_TOI: "What!?"
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Rocketknight
02/20/09

In reply to Afro Samurai Review: Hip Hop Hack and Slash
Not to sound like an ass, but you think the story in Afro Samurai is GOOD?
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LtdEdLoser
02/20/09

@Antiterra: Ghost Dog was ass
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Alibyebye Essmob
02/20/09

@ltdedloser: No it wasn't. Ghost Dog is a fantastic film, with a fantastic soundtrack.
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MrWhitmore
02/20/09

@SpiralJacobs: No. Ghost Dog was ass.
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Miksho
02/20/09

@MrWhitmore: No, Ghost Dog was amazing and still stands as one of the best movies I've seen in my life. Top 10 for sure.

We can do this all night, people!
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